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Austin, Texas Fraternity Hazing Death: Seeking Justice for Sawyer Updike We understand that you are reading this in a moment of unimaginable grief. When a child leaves home for the University of Texas at Austin with a 1410 SAT score and the whole world ahead of him, no parent expects to receive the phone call that their son is gone. We know that the pain is compounded when you discover that his final months were not spent in “brotherhood,” but in a living nightmare of physical torture and psychological abuse. In Austin, Texas, fraternity culture often hides behind traditions that are actually criminal acts. When an 18-year-old freshman is subjected to months of horrific abuse—including being punctured with staple guns, speared with fishhooks, whipped, and forced to ingest illegal narcotics—the law does not treat that as a “rite of passage.” It treats it as a series of intentional assaults that lead to a foreseeable mental health crisis. Our wrongful death lawyer team knows that the defense will try to argue that a student’s decision to end their own life was an “intervening cause” that lets the fraternity off the hook. We are here to tell you that is a lie.…